PROJECT SUMMARY

Advancing Earth Observation (EO) Application in Agriculture is an Innovate UK collaborative R&D project to develop wall-to-wall applications for EO data provided by the Sentinel missions of the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Copernicus Program. The project is part of the government’s innovation program under the Dept. for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS).

The overall objective is to derive information on environmental compliance and monitoring productivity in agriculture. The R&D project, which is led by Ecometrica, Edinburgh, brings together the UK’s leading experts on agriculture and remote sensing, with partners at Rothamsted Research, Environment Systems and Ecometrica. Research & Development will exploit the high frequency data available from Sentinel-1 and -2 to establish a data-processing pipeline to provide information for agriculture, and to develop a market for novel RS data product applications. Rothamsted’s contribution will be key to the quality assurance and development of biophysically meaningful indicators to delineate productive from marginal land.

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The project has three work packages to build a real-time data pipeline from Satellite-2-AgMarket based on “free” high frequency Sentinel data (S1 Synthetic Aperture Radar and S2 Multi-Spectral Optical).